Márcio Montarrotos was a Brazilian trumpet player.

Starting his studies with classical piano, he later went to trumpet and jazz.
In the 70's, he traveled to USA, to study at Berklee School of Music.1988 the Swiss TV invited Montarroyos to produce two one- Hour Concerts together with the german guitar player Sigi Schwab,Marc Egan b, Freddie Santiago perc and Guillermo Marchena dr. 1992 the German TV- ZDF invited him together with Sigi Schwab to play a spectaculous live Concert .In the same Year both Artists played in the Munic Studio 2000+2 the AMAZONAS CD Production.

He also played with many great artists, including Stevie Wonder

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He died on December 12, 2007 of lung cancer.